Water tank tower
One way to build our irrigation water tower. we spent sunday hauling wood from the pine trees we felled south of the new greenhouse up to a shaded area on the edge of the fields. This area was slightly lower than where we had the tanks last year so we needed about a foot and […]
trailer transport – moveable on farm housing
this picture pretty much says it all. on the road, towing an unlicensed trailer with a a special permit. spending $ on gas. looks like the van did around 15mpg unloaded. i was pretty light on the gas, but will be good to see if we can improve that. towing i got 10mpg, but i […]
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our third grey vehicle. our mechanic joe downey and i drove to farmingdale, ny to buy our new van. thank you search tempest for letting us look at all craigslist ads within 200 miles. for the last two years we had multiple delivery days partly because we could not fit enough shares into our station […]
usps fail
There are some peculiar things you learn about the usps and by extension our government by living in a rural area that you would never think about living in Manhattan. Also this whole “needing” a car thing is a lot more annoying in reality than it is in theory. Last week I ordered a bunch […]